Mallory bodies: Conditions in which they can be seen
"Alcoholic Bill Calls Tumor Wilson"
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Cholestatic syndromes
- Tumor- hepatocellular carcinoma
- Wilson's disease
Named after the American pathologist Frank Burr Mallory and also known as alcoholic hyaline, mallory body is an eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion body found in the liver parenchyma in a variety of liver diseases. It consists of a perinuclear aggregate of filamentous material that mostly consists of intermediate cytokeratin filaments. Mallory bodies primarily contain keratin-8 (KRT8) and keratin-18 (KRT18).
